Hello.
I’ve had some recent posts, but it’s been a long while since I gave a real life update. Namely about The Thing that has occupied a very large portion of my life the last few years.
To start off, it would probably be good to give some kind of reintroduction to the person who’s been behind this blog for a good five and a half years.
Hi. I’m Faith. Y’all know me as a Christian farmgirl who tends to write posts surrounding either life on the farm, photography, or random musings on living life as a Christian. What y’all might not know is…I recently became a nurse.
I still love sunsets and photography. Mabel is still my sweet (but slightly older) bluetick coonhound. I’ve also got three cats now, one of which “runs” her own YouTube channel.
Farm life has for sure taken a backseat to nursing school and the rest of life the last few years, but it’s still a very large part of me.
So, hello. I’m Faith, a Christ-loving farmgirl, nurse, and blogger. I’m currently spending my life mostly regaining some much-needed balance and rest to my life, which feels really, really weird.
It’s…yeah, very strange (but kinda nice?) to actually have plenty of time to eat, sleep, read my Bible, exercise, and even have some kind of fun(?) almost every single day. At least without the threat of the summer, winter, or spring break coming crashing to an end at any moment. 😉
It’s been a hard few years getting here and I’m still trying to take in the fact that I actually have my RN now. It really, really wasn’t easy, but God has seriously carried me through this journey and given me the strength and encouragement I needed at every turn to make it through. I’m so thankful for all the friends (“real-life” and online), all my family, and every other random person who’s been there for me these last years, in all the lows and highs.
You can mostly expect to find my same mix of rambling thoughts and musings on life, farm life updates, and random bookish posts.
While I do tend to frequently find myself being consulted for all kinds of medical-related questions by writers for their characters and I’ve contemplated expanding into medical-accuracy-based beta reading/editing, I find myself sorely lacking in the experience, as yet, to really properly advise authors in that way. So while I may consider posting an occasional pointer on writing medical scenes accurately on my Instagram and may expand that realm as my experience as a nurse grows, I don’t know that it will affect this blog to any great extent for a bit, at any rate.
In other news, I’m very excited to be participating in Five Fall Favorites this year!
The last few years I’ve watched this super fun book/blog party from a slight distance (being somewhat submersed in nursing school and everything else), but I’ve always wanted to take part someday. I figured this year I would just participate more closely and then actually take part as a blog another year, but a friend encouraged me to dive in and take advantage of my current free time, so I went ahead and decided to join! The categories are super fun this year, so I’m really glad I did.
If you’ve never heard of the Five Fall Favorites Blog Party, it goes like so.
September 25th-30th
Daily book categories. Daily posts where I (and the other bloggers) choose five of our favorite books from the category for the day.
Hosted by the lovely Kate (Willis) Hoppman at onceuponanordinary.wordpress.com
Fall-themed, lots and lots of fun, and will leave you with tons of book recs.
Thou art invited! Follow along here and I’ll link back to the host’s blog every day, or just follow along straight from Once Upon an Ordinary.
I thiiink that’s all. Feel free to share the fun about the Five Fall Favorites on your own blog or social media.
I’ll be back on the 25th-30th for book stuff and more later whenever I’ve got thoughts to share.
“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.”
-Jude 24-25 (ESV)
Faith on the Farm 